The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-29

the State, and particularly to the south
ern counties, that the drainage scheme
be carried to a speedy completion We
therefore recommend that such legisla
tive action be had during the present
session as will authorize the Board of In
ternaI Improvement to act promptly
and efficiently in securing the compile
ton of the work"
The House last night passed the fol-
lowing bills: Regulating the practice of
dentistry; providing for the working of
streets by convicts of county and towns;
legalizing the changing of the guage of
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail-
way.
Mr.. Latham introduced bill to create
the county of Pasco from the southern
portion of fernando.
The Senate passed the following bills:
To incorporate the Etoniah Drainage
Company; to incorporate the Ocala and
Silver Spring Park Street Railway Com
pany: to legalize the town government
of Titusville; to appropriate $4,000
for the display of the States re-
sources at the Sub-Tropical Exposition;
requiring clerks of the Circuit Courts to
keep separate records for criminal cases.
The Senate to-day passed a bill to
amend the act creating the Okeechobee
Drainage Commission, and regulating all
matters connected Herewith to the In
ternal improvement Board, also the gem
eral bill for the incorporation of banks
and banking Institutions; also a bill for
the relief of F. Nj. Heddick; also a me-
mortal for an appropriation for public
building at Tallahassee.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendment to the Local Option Bill, and
adopted "a resolution relating to the
taking up of bills out of their order by a
two-thirls vote; also considered the bill
to incorporate the Palatka Saving Bank
and Trust Con pany; which was ordered
engrossed.
The President and Secretary signed the
bill to prevent the pollution of the waters
of Lake Louise and other lakes and ponds
in Volusia and Putnam Counties
j. F. Mcclellan was confirmed Judge
of the First Circuit and Jessie j. Fin
ley Judge of the Fifth Circuit.
In the House to-day the Revenue Bill,
the consideration of which was begun
last night, was amended and passed.
The bill locating the Normal Schools
came up. and on a motion to reconsider,
w. Baskins withdrew his amendment
locating the white school at Ocala, and
the school was located at DeFuniak.
motion to reconsider the amend
ment locating the colored Normal School
at Tallahassee was tabled.
The Governor sent in a message veto
ing the bill to regulate the sale of seed
cotton in Gadsden County on the ground
that it was special legislation, without
notice by publication as required by the
Constitution, and because it was in vio-
lation of the principle of uniform taxa
ton. The veto was sustained by the
House. The bill allowing the claim of
Ocala for amounts contributed to the
East Florida Seminary passed as it came
from the Senate. The amount is $54 900.
The Palatka Charter Bill was consid-
cred and amended ON the second read
ing, on motion of w. b. Lamar, of Jeffer-
son, and the constitutional requirement
dispensed with, on motion of Hon. Thos.
Hind, of Putnam, and the bill was read
the third time, and passed as amended
and certified to by the Senate. Both
gentlemen named are entitled the thanks
of the people of Palatka for their faith
full and earnest services in behalf of the
bill.
The House also passed bills incorpora-
ting the Eufaula and St. Andrews
Bay Air Line Railway Company;
to refund commission fees paid by GER
tain county officers on their re-appOint
ment; to pay assessors who collected
agricultural statistics in 1887; to provide
for the incorporation of colleges and
other institutions of learning; also the
joint resolution restoring to the market
certain public lands; also the Tampa In
corporation Bill: also the bill incorpor-
porating the railroad from st. Lucie to
Lakeland.
At the night session tonight the bill
to divide fernando County by establish
Ing Pasco County from the lower pert of
Hernandez, ON line running about
eight miles south of Brooksvil,l passed
the second and third reading. On its
hearing in the Senate, amendments will
be offered cutting ..off the northern end
of fernando to make another county.
Hamilton DistOn is here and is salts
fled that the Board of Internal Improve
ment Fund will be able to arrange the
affairs of the Okeechobee Drainage
Company to the mutual advantage of
all parties, and thus provide for the
completion of the drainage system.
CHoATE,